It's finished! I was avoiding real work by concentrating on my own projects, so I was able to finish this dress rather quickly.

I decided to keep the boat neck line on the dress after I realized I didn't own any dress with this type of neck line. It's just not quite as wide as the original or my bra straps would have shown. I used a 50's play-suit pattern for the bodice and the skirt I made from a basic skirt block. I only replaced the front darts with pleats. I also made the skirt a little shorten than the original and added a belt, well, because I like belts and I think it finishes the garment nicely.

I'm very please with how this dress turned out. the bodice fits like a glove and the simple style of the dress compliments the bold pattern of the fabric.

First lets have a look at the inspiration photo:

This dress has a quite wide boat neck line and there seems to be a waist seam. Darts are most likely placed on the waist. The skirt is slightly below the knee and judging by the other picture I had of this dress, there are small pleats on the waist of the skirt. I couldn't find any picture of the back so I had to improvise that part.

I fitted the dress over some authentic vintage shape wear so now I'm forced to wear that every time I wish wear the dress :D

Since the front is so "closed" I wanted to make the back a little more open.

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Velcome to Vintage Follies. My name is Leea and I'm a vintage loving girl from Finland. I'm blogging about my sewing, knitting, vintage finds and life style. I love the fashions of the 20's through 50's shoes,dancing, my cats and all the pretty things.